A recent update of WordPress has broken a few things around here. Noticed so far: the Classic Editor can no longer save or preview (error 406); and the sidebar does not show up in single-article display.
(later) And the comment form is gone. Argh. Time to look for a theme that I don’t hate, until I get around to learning how to make one properly.
Spam comments on this blog have always been concentrated on a few old posts, so I tried disabling comments on some that look unlikely to ever attract legitimate comments.
Didn’t work. I guess all that happens when I unclick “Allow comments” is that the comment form goes away, without closing whatever channel the bots use.
That is a flaw.
I toy with the thought of converting this here website to MediaWiki (which my host supports), as I am more efficient at editing there than at writing raw HTML in vi.
The wiki’s first articles would be:
I’d continue to report new thoughts here, and then integrate them into appropriate articles. I wonder whether MediaWiki and WordPress play well together. I’m not aware of any personal website that combines blog with wiki, but it seems unlikely that nobody does it.
And now I wonder whether a wiki on my home box would help me keep track of the little files I write as notes on this topic or that, and the PDFs that I download to read someday, and the
When I changed the site to HTTPS but didn’t change a corresponding setting in WordPress, comments were broken. Should be working now.
The blog “Degrees of Freedom”, which had been inactive for some time when last I looked at it, has vanished. James, do you still visit here?
Someone has snapped up my old unwanted domain to start a blog in (i think) Swedish.
Jonas discovered that, if you write a comment here with three links, you’ll be taken to a 403 page without explanation. I haven’t found the configuration setting that does this.